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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Whatever, Affection

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen

Pain, Person, Giving

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

End, Become, Matter

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama

Love, Daily, Important

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F. Kennedy

Men, Easy, Stronger

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan

Made, Problem, Difference

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Run, Duty

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

Beauty, Truth, Children

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau

Mind, Deep, Single

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Truth, Society, Lie

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
Dalai Lama

Help, Daily, Find

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Long, Die, Until

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain

Life, Time, Death

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert Einstein

Destiny, Point, Physical

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln

Live, Him, Place

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
James M. Barrie

Sunshine, Cannot, Others

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski

Time, Past, Blame

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller

Life, Good, Heart

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Henry David Thoreau

Lies, Within, Behind

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Maya Angelou

Home, Place, Safe

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Jim Rohn

Future, Someone, Small

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Women, Men

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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare

Good, Men, Evil

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, After, Knowing

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

Someone, Thoughts, Else

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
Kurt Cobain

Peace, Best, Hope

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, Nothing, May

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